Battleship

1. To spread or protect American value and moral beliefs best applies to the Spanish-American War because U.S. citizens thought the Spanish were the ones responsible for sinking the battleship USS Maine. The citizens felt the need to encourage the Congress to declare war on Spain in order to protect pour interests. We felt that Cubans lacked freedom from the Spanish government because Cuba was not an independent country, yet. The U.S. saw the need to assistance Cuban people that were still…

General Tomoyuki Yamashita, known as “Tiger of Malaya” and “the Beast of Bataan,” was an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War 2. He also was the supreme commander of all Japanese forces located in the Philippines in which he would later soon be known for the most remarkable single victory of the entire (Pacific) war – the fall of Singapore. Leading the invasion of Malaya and Singapore for around two months ended with Winston Churchill, the former British Prime Minister, to…

They’re many reasons why World War I started. There were four causes of World War I they were, militarism, alliances, imperialism and nationalism. The main cause of World War I is militarism because they need a very strong army, race and U-boats. Firstly, militarism was the cause of World War I because of the army issue. When the nations see the need for a strong army and navy to settle disputes with other countries. When they said 60% of the German army is not that stronger than…

Unit 2 Project: Declaration of War Yesterday on the 25th of April 1898, the United States Congress declared war against Spain. A reason being is, in February of this year the battleship USS Maine, which was ported in the Havana Harbor sank after having two explosions rock the ship. Over half the men that were aboard the ship were killed instantly. Our government immediately blamed Spain for the explosions. President McKinley had no more hope for neutrality in the Cuban-Spanish conflict and…

The United States has officially joined the war after a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor early Sunday morning. This plan, known as Operation Z, was created by Isoroku Yamamoto, a Japanese Marshal Admiral. Just before 8:00a.m. on December 7, a fleet of Japanese war planes approached the Hawaiian island of Oahu and bombed the U.S. naval base, Pearl Harbor. A total of over three hundred Japanese fighter and bomber planes were sent in two waves to carry out the attack. Radars located at Pearl…

When archaeologists study artifacts, they look for it changed over time. The text says that the use of seriation, or “the sequencing of functionally similar artifacts based on stylistic differences,” helps determine the place of older or younger materials based on “the simple assumption that object styles change over time” (page 226). The fact that object styles change over time helps archaeologists determine why that artifact even changed in the first place. It could be improved or have better…

II is the most gruesome large scale war in recent history, leaving Europe in ruin even worse than World War I. WWII saw ushered in a time of unprecedented military production and might, with ever improving war technologies such as in airplanes, battleships (the Yamato, Musashi, and Bismarck for example), and most importantly, nuclear weaponry. WWII helped pull the United States out of the Great Depression, and established America as the world leader it had neglected to be during and after WWI.…

History on Film Star Wars Edition Star Wars became such a huge cultural impact on society for certain reasons that haven't been replicated. Whether it be for the way it changed the way people perceived sci fi by allowing almost endless possibilities of imagination. Or how the films and its studios had changed the way effects in movies today would stun audiences in their current cultures. To understand how Star wars affected and caused such an impact in the culture technologically is to…

power as the foundation to becoming a world power. The increases of technology in ship construction was the catalyst for sea power with modernization and enlargement of ships, implementations of steel and steam, electrical systems, and the use of battleship naval ordnance. The Battle of Midway showed the importance of this technology and was arguably the most pivotal naval battle in history. As depicted in Decisions at Sea, Craig Symonds details the Battle of Midway to be a decisive contest for…

On Sunday, Dec 7, 1941 at 7:49 in the morning. It was an unannounced, fierce attack upon the united states naval base in pearl harbor. Hawaii pearl harbor directed by Japanese airplanes was the bloody start of a dreadful war amongst japan and the united states. Numerous us staff passing were considered well the same number of injured. A shocked and appalled America abruptly found itself at war. How was Hawaii's geographic area a key component of pearl harbor assault? USS Arizona sailors…